Book ID: 6962
LEWIS, D.H. (ed.)
Storage Carbohydrates in Vascular Plants. 1984. (Soc. Experim.Biol.Seminar Ser. 19). 48 line-diagrams. many tables. approx. 256 p. 8vo.
Examines the distribution and storage of the sugars produced byphotosynthesis in the leaves of vascular plants. It bridges the gapbetween the limited coverage given to carbohydrates in textbooks of plant physiology and the specialist treatments presented in researchmonographs. The book opens with a description of the elementary chemistry of carbohydrates, and then goes on to summarize the currentknowledge and problems concerning the physiology and metabolism ofcarbohydrates in plants. Its coverage includes not only the intensively-studied compounds such as starch and sucrose, but also other lesserknown but widely distributed soluble and insoluble carbohydrates.